lummi island wine tasting mar 1 ’24
Spring Hours: now open both Friday and Saturday afternoons!
Beginning this weekend we begin our new Spring hours,
OPEN…
Fridays 4-6 pm for wine tasting and bread order pickup;
Saturdays 3-5 pm for wine tasting…and sales…and the usual frivolity and chatter…!
This week’s wine tasting
Celler Can Blau Can Blau Montsant Red
Ponzi Pinot Gris ’21 Oregon $16
Aromas of honeydew melon, candied citrus peel, white peach and honeysuckle; balanced palate
of sweet tangerine peel, meringue, lime, apricot and light white pepper.
Can Blau Can Blau ’20 Spain $16
Aromas and flavors of cocoa bean and ripe, dark fruits and berries, a seamless texture, and long, silky finish that improves with aeration.
Chakana Estate Selection Malbec ’20 Argentina $20
Opaque, bright purple in color; pleasing nose of plums and spicy attic dust; full bodied palate of plums and spice with good length, balanced acidity, soft tannins, and lingering finish.
Friday Bread Pickup This Week
Multi Grain English Muffin Loaf – Originally intended for English muffins that instead became a loaf, with nice mix of bread flour, spelt, whole wheat and oatmeal for a lot of flavor. Add buttermilk and butter and get a nice light, tender crumb. Delicious for toast or sandwiches! – $5/loaf
French Country Bread – A levain bread from a sourdough culture of bread flour, fresh milled whole wheat, and a bit of toasted wheat germ. The final dough gets a long cool overnight ferment to develop into a rustic country loaf! – $5/loaf
and pastry this week…
Chocolate Babka Rolls – A sweet pastry dough full of eggs, butter and sugar, rolled and spread with a chocolate filling, cut into individual rolls, and placed in baking forms, and brushed with sugar syrup after baking. Some people say they hide them to to be sure to get one…!.- 2/$5
Island Bakery has developed a lengthy rotation cycle of several dozen breads and pastries. Each Sunday Janice emails the week’s bread offering to her mailing list. Orders received before Wednesday will be available for pickup at the wine shop each Friday from 4:00 – 5:30 pm. Go to Contact us to get on the bread email list.
Economics of the Heart: Following the Bread Crumbs
A few weeks ago we started musing about how our nation and its Constitution seem to be arriving at the brink of being overthrown by a bizarre, extremely well-funded, and decades-long constellation of very wealthy, focused, and patient conspirators whose plans have been festering and evolving for decades. Below are a few reads to ponder, and see if you can find any links among the bread crumbs.
John Birch Society ...“Birchers helped forge an alternative political tradition on the far right and that the core ideas were an anti-establishment, apocalyptic, more violent mode of politics, conspiracy theories, anti-interventionism and more explicit racism and…were some of the first people on the right to take up questions of public morality, of Christian evangelical politics…”
Heritage Foundation (see also) ...reporter asks : “At CPAC last year, Victor Orban said Hungary is “the place where we didn’t just talk about defeating the progressives and liberals and causing a conservative Christian political turn, but we actually did it.” …HF President’s reply: “It’s all true. It should be celebrated.”
Project for a New American Century “To win the “War on Terror,” the signatories outlined several key steps: capturing and eliminating Osama Bin Laden, overthrowing Saddam Hussein’s regime, targeting Hezbollah, defending Israel and forcing the Palestinian Authority to eradicate terrorism and finally, to substantially reinforce the United States defense budget.”…
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Just a moment…just a moment...uh-huh….uh-huh…WHAT?? ARE YOU SERIOUS????...the Supreme Court did WHAT??!!
Um, sorry folks, but we are terminating this broadcast early because recent events have demonstrated that there is now no need to make a case that the enemies of democracy have been working on scuttling ours for several decades, because today’s news demonstrates two things very clearly:
1. Yesterday’s Supreme Court decision to stop all pending federal court cases against the Tweetster for the foreseeable future (presumably till after the next election and ITS years of litigation while the nation and the world succumb to Global Fascism and Global Warming); and
2. Sadly, since the Republican coup we were intending to warn about and fight against is now un fait accompli, and our worst fears sont devenus réalité, we must unite and VOTE if we are to have any hope of restoring the Constitutional Democracy we grew up in.
We have eight months to save our nation and our planet. No time to waste…
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